Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the 20. daie of September were three circles seene to compasse the sun, Matth. Paris. and so continued the space of thrée houres togither: which when they vanished a|waie, two sunnes appeared and sprang foorth after a maruellous maner. Which strange sight the com|mon people imagined to be a signe or token of the controuersie then kindling betwixt the king and the archbishop.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About this time the king called a parlement at Westminster, to treat of matters concerning the commonwealth,Discord still kindleth be|twixt the king and the archb. wherein great discord arose betwixt the king & archbishop Becket, about certeine points touching the liberties of the church. For the king ha|uing an earnest zeale vnto iustice, and commanding the iudges to punish offenders without respect, vn|derstood by their information, that manie things by them of the spiritualtie (against whome their authori|tie might not be extended) were committed contra|rie to common order: as theft, rapine, murther, and manslaughter; in so much that in his presence it was made notorious, that sith the beginning of his reigne, aboue an hundred manslaughters had béene committed within his realme of England by préests and men of religious orders. Herevpon being moo|ued in mind,Murthers committed by préests. he set forth lawes against the spiritual|tie, wherein he shewed his zeale of iustice. For as the cause procéeded from the bishops of that age, so did the fault also, sith contrarie to their owne canons they permitted préests to liue ouer licentiouslie with|out due correction, studieng onelie to mainteine the liberties and immunities of the church, W. Paruus. and not to re|forme the irregularitie of the regulars. Matth. Paris. Of this crew was one Philip de Broc, a canon of Bedford, who being arreigned before the kings iusticer for a mur|ther, vttered disdainefull words against the same i [...]|sticer: which when he could not denie before the arch|bishop, he was depriued of his prebend, and banished the land for two yeares space.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 These things troubled the king, who therefore ha uing EEBO page image 70 uing alreadie set downe such orders as should bridle the spiritualtie from their wicked dooings, thought that if he might get them confirmed in parlement by consent of the bishops and clergie, then the same should take place and be receiued for lawes. Wherefore he earnestlie required at this parlement, [...] that it might be enacted against all such of the spiritualtie, as should be taken and conuicted for any heinous offense, they should loose the priuiledge of the church, and he deliuered vnto the ciuill magistrate, who should see them suffer execution for their offenses, in like maner as he might any of the kings subiects being laie men. For otherwise the king alledged, that they would boldlie presume to doo much more mischiefe, if after ecclesiasticall discipline, no secular correction should follow. And likelie it was that they would passe but little for their disgrading and losse of their order, who in contempt of their calling would not absteine from committing most mischieuous abhominations and hainous enormities.